Fruit picker



J. MOORE. FRUITPICKERI. APPLICATION men m's.e,1920.

Patented May 16, 1922.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JEMERSON MOORE, OF OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA.

FRUIT PICKEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1922.

Application filed February 6, 1920. Serial No. 356,735.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JnMnRsoN Moons, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oklahoma, in the county oi. Oklahoma and State of Oklahoma,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit Pickers, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings.

The object of theinvention is to provide a suitable device for reachingand picking fruit.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is an elevation view of thedevice, and for convenience of this description is referred to as afront elevation.

Figure 2 is an elevation view taken in the direction of the arrow 2 ofFigure 1.

Figure 3 is a rear elevation showing an assemblage of certain portionsof the device.

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing assemblage of certain other parts.

Figure 5 is a perspective view showing an optional construction of oneof the parts appearing in Figure 4:.

Like characters of reference designate like parts in all the figures.

The device includes a stationary rear jaw 6 whichis annular in form andmade of strong wire or rod.

This jaw 6 is mounted on the upper end of a suitable square pole 7 byhaving the em of its wire or rod turned downward on opposite sides ofsaid pole as at 8 and inserted tightly into the pole as at 9; asheet-nfietal holding clip 10 being hooked around the down-turned ends 8and riveted to the extreme upper end of the pole to firmly anchor the inplace.

A long flexible bag 11, large enough to hold as much fruit as can beconveniently handled. on the pole 7, has its upper end attached. to theannular jaw 6 preferably by hemming the edges of said. bag around thewire or rod of said jaw as shown.

An edge portion of thcbag may be drawn .forward through the lower partof the annular jaw 6 and tacked to the upper end of the pole 7 as at 12,thus partly relieving the upper part of the jaw from the weight of thecontents of the bag.

The lower end of the bag 11 may be secured to the pole 7 to preventswmging, and

intermediate portions 01 the bag may also be secured to the pole iffound necessary.

in further arrangement, a second and smaller jaw 13 of strong wire orrod is pivoted to the pole 7 and adapted to coact with the stationaryjaw (3 in engaging the fruit.

The ends of the wire or rod of the coactlng aw 13 are turned straightdownward as at 14: and 15 and pivoted to the pole 7, the end 14 passingpivotally through the upper tubular end 16 of a supporting plate 17which is riveted to the pole, and being formed into a crank 18 forcontrolling the movements of the jaw, while the other end 15 is formedinto an embracing eye 19 around the pivotal portion 20 of the end 1 1between said plate 17 and crank 18.

As an optional construction, and as shown in Figure 5, the down-turnedend 15 of the pivoted jaw 13 may be formed into a crank 18 after beingbent into complete embrace of the pivotal portion 20 which passesthrough the plate 17, said pivotal p0rtion 20 then being bent downwardas at 21 merely to keep the end portions 141 and 15 ot the jaw fromspreading apart.

The pivoted jaw 13 is covered and centrally closed by flexible sheetmaterial 22, so that when closed into or against the stationary annularjaw 6 it forms a closure for thebag 11.

As shown only in Figure 2, the stationary j aw 6 may be provided with acutting blade 23, so that when the fruit 2 1 is caught and forcedthrough said jaw by the jaw 13 the stem 25 of the fruit is cut by saidblade and allows the fruit to fall into the bag 11.

The blade 23 may be provided with integral back-turned clips 26 whichpartly embrace the jaw 6, and may be wired to said jaw as at 27.

An operating rod 28 is attached to the crank 18 of the jaw 13 andextends down along the pole 7 to within easy reach of the person usingthe device, the lower portlon of the rod passing slidably through. aguiding bearing 29 on the pole.

The following is claimed:

1. In a fruit picker, an annular jaw, a polygonal pole, the said jawhaving ends turned downward upon opposite sides of said pole andinserted tightly in the latter, a metal clip hooked around thedownturned ends and. riveted to the pole, a flexjaw, with an edgeportion of thebag drawn forward through the lower part of the jaw andsecured to the upper end of the pole, and a jaw pivoted to the pole at apoint below the first-named jaw and having a flexible covering and apivotal portion mounted on the pole and having a crank portion and aneye embracing the same.

Witness my hand this 15th day of December, 1919.

J EMER SON MOORE.

